West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-08
WOMAN AND HOME.
HIGHEST TYPE OF WOMANHO IN
THE ENGLISH MIDDLE CLASS.

Cookery for Children-Kissins Games.
Hats Mt the Theatre-Comfort the
Mother Heart-Nourishment in an Egg.
Kitchen Dignity-Stray Paragraphs.
In the great middle class of England we
find the highest type of womanhood and her
saving grace In health and physique these
women are models worthy Of our admiration
and emulation 1t is with rare exceptions
that the tourist sees pale faced, puny. sickly
looking, spindle wasted, painting, fainting
English woman. The pink and white COM
plexion, the clear eye, the well rounded waist,
the firm tread, bespeak perfect bodily health
Many of these women take their summer
outing in long walks across the fields, that
they may view nature in all its grandeur and
simplicity, instead of rushing from shop to
dressmaker and packing Saratoga trunks for
days or weeks before 'taking rest" They
don tidy flannel walking costume, fill
hand basket with few toilet articles, and
start on their walking or tricycle. tour over
the charming roads, making detours as they
fancy, over the heaths. 1t is not uncommon
TO see a double tricycle. with husband and
wife riding through the country for their
DOuDIlcoo luC kOOQ VI tucoc
women is due largely to their outdoor exer-
else. In this class will be found the best of
homemakers, the broad minded philanthrop-
lists and reformers and the happiest and most
useful wives, mothers and spinsterS.
The English wife in this class is no drudge;
she commands retinue of servants that
would appall the American husband on do
meStic pay day. The standing of q family
socially depends somewhat upon the number
of servants employed. ave could easily
manage our household service with one SER
want said model mother TO me, "but son
and daughters would rather economize in
other ways and keep two maids for the APP
pearance of the thing" The irregularity,
the timely luncheon of the English household
would make a drudge nf the head were it not
for the numbers Of serv ants usually employed.
have been most delightfully."- entertained in
several charming, perfectly ordered homes of
men engaged in large manufacturing inter-
estS, and find that the usual retinue of SER
wants consists Of a cook house maid, nurse,
governeSs, gardener, groom and valet. The
scarcity Of labor keeps these servants respect
ful and attentive, and their Character de-
pendS upon the length of time they serve one
master. This makes commanding and serv-
ing much less annoying than with us in
America, where the help expects to rule or
ruin. II the mistress of this manse IS given
to benevolence, as she usually is, she employs
q woman philanthropist to read the Bible and
visit the sick, the afflicted or the fallen with
messages of consolation, the loaf or the bunch
OF flowers, as the case may require
The zeal and magnitude of charities carried
on by this class of women in the cities of
England is beautiful to contemplate. Con-
, siderinH the great domoraliratior or tie
masses throughout the British Empire, it ap-
pears to me that these women, and their
hearty co-laborers, their husbands, fathers and
brothers, are holding up by main force the
whole structure of British society. They are
usually devoted to church duties, the church
leading rather than following in works of re-
form and charity. am pleased to note the
absence of religious cant in their conversation
ard methods; they do not expect the Lord to
serve them as their apprentice, but with an
executive ability born of real and common
sense they apply the law as laid down in His
word. There in an entire absence of silly
small talk and affectation among them, which
gives place to genial, philanthropic or political
subjects. Altogether the women of the middle
class of England are charming to study and
to know.-Home Journal.